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M'KIM His Rise From Pres Sketch of the C Chief Executivu States to F the Assas His Career From Its Humble Beginning In a Small Town to the Presidency of the United States. Long and honorable was the public career of William McKin ley. It extended from the time when, as a mere stripling, he held sway in a log cabin country school to the tragic moment, when, as chief executive of the nation, he was felled by the assassin's bullet. During all that time his record suffered neither blot nor blemish. Hewas tested as a soldier, as a lawyer, as a politician, as a states man, as the head of the nation. In each case he stood the test. In private life he began by be ing a manly boy, a dutiful and obe dient son. He continued as a faithful and loving husband, one whose example has had its good ef fect on the national character. His life was typically American, the life of an American of the best type. And through it all he was a patriot. Above personal ambi tion were ever in his mind his country and his country's good. William McKinley came from that dominant race that has furnished this nation with some 1 ' tof its greatest sol MgJigley diers and states men. He was ESScotch-Irish by de a Boy. scent, and his an cestors immigrated to this country ear ly enough to have sons who took a pa triotic part in the war of the Rtevolu tion. - The family removed from Pennsyl vanla to Ohio in 1S14, and from that day has been identified with that state not in -a great public way, but simply as faithful and devoted citi zens, not striving for particular emi nence, but notable for sturdiness of Character and integrity. It was among such people and of them that William McKinley was born at Niles, In Trumbull county, 0., Feb. 26, 1S44. A younger son, he was destIned by his father, after whom he was named, for the bar. He was educated at the publie schools, and later entered Alle X'ZELY ASAEnEvT 3TATOB. ghany college at Meadville, Pa., teach ing school to pyhis tuition fees. Scarcely was he matriculated when the civil war came on. He was but a stripling of nineteen when he entered as a private. McKinley, as those who remember him as a boy in Poland, 0., declare, was a real boy, full of fn, loring ath NLEY Schoolteacher to sident. areer of the Third -e of the United all Victim to sin's Bullet. ,AM M'INIJEY. iig a hing an El- UitJoor exr cise, and yet at 10 we find him taking upon himself a serious view of life. The church records show that in 185S, when he was hardly 10, he united with the Methodist Episcopal church of Po land. McKinley's father was an Iron manu facturer and a pioneer in that business. William was his third son, the eldest being David, the second James and the youngest Abner. McKinley's mother was alert and vig orous, mentally and physically, up to the time of her death, which occurred when she was nearly ninety years of age. Major McKinley's home life was very happy despite the fact that his wife was an invalid. Mrs. McKinley -was MIss Ida Sax As a ton, daughter of Husband. James and Mary HU~ha~d*Saxton of Canton, O . She .received an excellent edu cation when a girl, spent some time abroad and became her father's assist ant in his bank, where it was said that her fair face attracted bouquets and bank notes to the window. "She must be trained," said her father. "to buy her own bread if necessary, and not to sell herself to matrimony." She had many suitors, but Major Mc Kinley. then a rising youug lawyer, vanquished all rivalry, removed the young woman from the cashier's win dow and won from honest James Sax ton these words when the hand of the daughter was gained: "You are the only man I have ever known to whom 1 would intrust my daughter." Mrs. McKinley always assisted her husband In politics. Hecr Ill health in nowise deterred her from enjoying the political honors he won, nor did it pre vent her from being a wise counselor. Her presence time and again served as an inspiration to her husband. When political preferment first came to0 Mc Kinley, It was his wife who convinced him that he should accept. She believ ed Implicitly in his talents, and that his service would he for the good of the state she was certain. She never wavi ered in her faith in her husbands con victions. Mrs. McKinley had confidence in her husband not only as a public official, 1'INLEY AT flEGINNING OF HIS LEGAL CARtEERl. but as a man. Hecr illness was often overcome by her affection, and she traveled thousands of miles when she was weak In body merely that she might be near him. She encouraged him by word, look and presence, and he In knightly style returned the fa vors and reciprocated the sacred affec tion. Her home life, was short, for out of the thirty years of married life more than twenty-four were passed by her husband In the publIc service. Mrs. McKinley for years has spent much of her leisure in crocheting those dainty little slippers which have so many times brought sunshine Into gloomy hospital wards in various parts of the country. It is soid that she has knitted over 5,0 pairs of these slip pers in her twenty-six years of invalid life. In appearance Mrs. Mc1inley is of medium height. v.ith brown hair and large deep hia eyes. Although an Invalid, she was fond of making and receiving calls and often went on shop ping tours. M1rs. McKinley never cared much for dress. although her toilets have always been in exellent taste. For many years Mrs. McKinley's face has betrayed a faint languor, sugges tive of the invalid, but it Is fair and bears a stamp of beauty, In spite of the fifty-fve yars she carries. 1Her ill health 'dates from girlhood. As a student she with difficulty undertook the studies f the course, by reason of this condi tion, but with constant care and fre -nt meica attention shc overcame to talste of iis pleasures. r utuai invalidism dates from the birth of her second child, in 1871. This child died In its infancy and was followed by the first child, a daughter of three years, a short time afterward. Mrs. Saxton, Mrs. McKinley's mother, also died about this time. These sorrows were more than she could bear, and she never re covered. A little story of McKinley's home acts while governor may be of interest. 0-, No less than his at tention to his wife, As his thought and As care for his moth aSoi. er, particularly a 01- since his father's death in 1S92, have attracted comment. It had been his custom while at home in Canton to take his mother to church each Sunday morning. When he went to Columbus as governor, he determin ed to keep up the practice as -much as possible, and unless the press of public business was very great he always slipped quietly over to Canton from the state capital on Sunday mornings and walked to church with his mother on his arm. The next train would carry him to Columbus, where his wife awaited his coming. Naturally the mother looked with pride on such a son, and she followed with keen inter est the progress of his first presidential canvass. Young IcKinley had been a keen ob server, so far as his opportunities went, ._ _ , of the political events that culni McKinley nated in the fiing on Fort Sumter. s The call of the pWes a Soldier. ident for troops found a quick re sponse in his breast, and when the drums and fifes aroused the echoes of the quiet strcets of Po land among the first applicants for en listment was William McKinley, Jr. It was a new experience and a new school that the eighteen-year-old boy entered, this school of war, but he had wonderful teachers. It was his good fortune that assigned him to the Twen ty-third Ohio. The recruits that com posed.it were in June, 1S01, mustered and formed into a regiment. Its first colonel was William S. Rosecrans, aft erward major general commanding the department of the Cumberland. See ond in command was Stanley Mat thews, who was a splendid soldier, but won his greatest honors In civil life by -E. --oin ,nie Sttssnao.n eofmhe United States Thsenar ande of the illustrious men who were bor-ne on the roll of officers of the gallant regiment in which marched Private William McKinley, Jr. He carried the musket for fourteen months; then he was promoted. But e won his promotion honestly. ils comrades of the rank and file bear tea timony to the fact that lie wvas a good soldier; that he performed every duty devolving upon him with fidelity and intelligence and without complaint. They congratulated him, ther-efore, when he was made commissary ser geant of the regiment. Later, after Antietam, he was made a second lieu tenant, and the Mahoning county boy had risen from the ranks. He was now to all intents and pur poses a trained veteran. Hie had had his baptism in blood at Carnifex Fer ry. He had gone thr-ough the West Virginia campaign and become a part of the magnificent Army of the Poto mac under McClellan. South Mountain and Antietam had been made immor tal by the blood of heroes, mird the shoulder straps were worn with a due but not exaggerated realization of the responsibilities they implied. H~e be came a second lieutenant on Sept. 24, 182. He was promoted to first lieu tenant Feb. 7, 18Gi3. His commission as captain bears date July 23, 18G;. The brevet rank of major was con ferred by President Lincoln "for gal lant and meritorious ser-vices at the UeaT1 1 i li T. was w:th Sheridan in the Shenandoah campaign, was at Winchester, Cedar Creek. Fisher's Hill, Opequan, Kernstown. Floyd Mountain and Derryvllle, where his horse was shot under him, and in all the battles In which the Twerty-third participated. lie served on the staffs of Generals Hayes, Crook, Hancock and Carroll. He was mustered out with the regiment July 20, 1SG~, after more than four years' continuous serv ice. When the war closed, McKinley was just twenty-two. le was full of youth fil enthusiasm and ardor. and he re McKinley turned to his home in Ohio fully ex as pecting to accept a Lawyer. the flattering offer made him of a commission in the regular army. But to this his parents offerdd strong opposition. They point ed out the small rewrards that come to the soldier in time of peace. At length he yielded to their persuasions and re luctantly gave up his dreams of mar tial glory and bent his mind upon the pursuits of peace. The war had ended all thought of a collegiate career. He cast about for a profession, and natu rally, considering the bent of his mind, he chose the law. le became a student in the offees of Charles E. Glidden and David Wilson, then leaders of the Mahoning county bar. He supplement ed his reading by taking the course at the Albany Law s:-obl and in 1867 was admitted to the bar. He located at Canton, where he formed a partner ship with Judge Belden. He was an excellent advocate, even in those early days, and made some of the best jury arguments ever heard at the Stark county bar. At the time he was fiist elected to congress he enjoyed one of the best general practices in the cnaut:% A K.a lawyer Mr. McKinley was al ways thorough and careful in the prep aration of cases. He had the confidence of everybody and soon became particu larly prominent as an advocate. He prepared himself by thorough courses of reading for his public career. - He re sembled Garfield much in this respect and possessed elements of strength by reason of his thorough study of polit ical subjects. He seems to have had in view from the beginning the devotion of his life to public service. During all his early professional years he was an active particlpant in .Repiublican ,cain 11 A Mom erM3 H = E = M ~M'N / INn [INLEY bly.. yearodwe he a eleteds pblich speakr an oraor. lTe planhisdis jc I had ndtrct trpresentfr them in congress. As a Ther a he soon made his mark and was Statesmall* returned at each .,subsequent election until that or 1890, in which year a change in the bounda ries of his district defeated him by a majority of only 302. While in congress he served on the committee on revision of laws, the ju 'R/!KNEYSFAHR RT . T 'P(ACE. ' AHR diciary committee, the committee on expenditures in the postoffice depart ment and the committee on rules. When General Garfield received the nomina tion for.the presidency, Mr. McKinley was assigned to the vacancy on the committee on ways and means. He served on the last ment.oned committee til; the expiration of his last term as representative. While chairman of this cornnittee he framed die %eKinley bill, which afterward becaie a law. McKinley was a protege of ex-Presi dent Hayes, and up to the time of the latter's death he recognized, the ex president as his adviser and counselor. He was in General Hayes' regiment during the civil war. General Hayes knew him and his father well, and saw in the dashing young cavalier the germ of greatness. He needed a counselor, an adviser, a friend, and General Hayes watched over him with the filial love, devotion and pride of a father. The wai' ended, McKinley still re mained an object of hope, of interest and pride to General Hayes. McKin iey became a candidate for congress and was elected. When Hayes was president, McKinley was In the house of representatives. The major was a frequent welcome visitor at the White House. One day the president gave McKinley advice, which made McK-in ley the foremost champion of a pro tective tariff. President Hayes thus spoke to the young representative: "To achieve success and fame you must pursue a special line. You must not make a speech on every motion offered or bill introduced. You must confine yourself to one particular thing. Become a specialist. Take up some branch of legislation and make that your study. Why not take up the subject of tariff? Deing a subject that will not be settled for years to come, it offers a great field for study and a chance for ultimate fame." With these words ringing in his ears McKinley began studying the tariff and. soon became the foremost author ity on the subject. - The day upon which the "McKinley tariff bill" was passed in the house must always stand as the supreme mo ment of McKirrley's congressional ca reer. The bill, by adroit parliamentary generalship which had prevented it from being weighed down with amend I ments not approved by the committee, I had been brought under the operation of the previous question. It stood com plete, ready to go forth for good or evil. Upon McKinley devolved the task of smoothing its path and speeding it upon Its way. The occasion, thoroughly advertised, attracted to the capitol an immense throng. The gal leries were one The mass of humanity, McKinley and the anticipa tion of the vote Bill, had compelled the attendance of ev ery member. As usual, McKinley spoke without notes. His voice, penetrating but not harsh, filled the chamber. Every sentence was distinctly heard. Never was an orator more free from the ordinary n.M'K.IYEY s MOTHER. claptrap than McKinley. So true'ls this that the incident when he sudden ly drew from beneath his desk the suit of clothes which he purchased for $10 at the establishment of a fellow repre sentative in Boston, in order to demon strate the cheapness of wearing ap parel, stands out with vivid distinct ness. It was this earnestness and self con viction that made McKinley's address in the house and on the stump so effec tive. Indeed the occasion is still re called when he held an audience of Georgia people for two hours at a Chautauqua assembly near Atlanta while he preached to them the glories of the protective tariff system. "It was only by the greatest self control," said the late Henry W. Grady, speak ing of this event afterward, "that I restrained myself from rising as Mc Kinley concluded his wonderful speech and declaring myself henceforth ready to fellow him as a disciple." James G. Blaine in his "Twenty Years of Congress" reviewed the For ty-fifth congress, in which McKinlu~y first sat, as follows: "Williain McKin ley, Jr., entered from the Canton dis trict. He enlisted in an Ohio regiment when but 17 years old and won the rank of major by meritorious service. The interest of his constituency and his own bent of mind led him to the stuy of industrial questions, and he was soon recognized in the house as one of the most thorough statisticians and one of the ablest defenders of the doctrine of protection." At a great mass meeting in Indian apolis several years ago the late cx Preident Harrison was presiding offi cer. McKinley was one of the speak ers, and Harrison introduced him as. follows: 'He has endeared himself to all by iis record as a gallant young soldiert battling for the flag. He has honored himself, his state and the country by* his conspicuous services in high legis lative and executive places. No man more than he Is familiar with the ques tions that now engage public thought. No mnan is more able than he lucidly to set them before the people. I do not nee1 to invoke your attention to what be shall say. He will command It." The sentiment which resulted in the nomination of McKinley for governor of Ohio was en - a gendercri immedi As Governor ately upon the an nouncement of the arid result of the elec President. tioli of 10,' when after fourteen -- 2 years' continuous service in congress the Ohio statesman was defeated for re-election. During his gubernatorial campaign in 103 McKinley visited eighty-six of the eighty-eight counties of Ohio and made 130 speeches. H~e was elected by a plurality of 80,995, up to that time the record in Ohio. The policy which Governor McKin cy pursued during his four years of mocpncy of the gubernatorial chair 'HINETr's HOME, CANTON. was outlined when in his inaugural address he said: "It is my dgire to co operate with you in every endeavor to secure a wise, economical and honora ble administration and, so far as can be done, the improvement and eleva tion of the public service." From the day of his inauguration Governor McKinley took the greatest interest in the management of the pub lic benevolent institutions of the state, and he made a study of means for their betterment. Buring his first term the state board of arbitration was created, and he made the workings of the board a matter of personal supervision during the entire four years of his administra tion. No account of McKinley's connection with labor problems would be complete without some mention of the tireless energy which he displayed in securing relief for the 2,000 miners In the Hock ing valley mining district who early in 1895 were reported out of work and destitute. The news first came to the governor one night at midnight, but be fore 5 o'clock in the morning he had upon his own responsibility dispatched to the afflicted district a car containing $1,000 worth of provisions. - Later he made appeals for assistance and finally distributed among the 2,732 families in the district clothing and provisions to the amount of $82,796.95. McKinley's nomination and election to the presidency in 1896, the stirring events of 1897, culminating in 1898 in the war with Spain, and- the acquisi tion for the first time in this country's history of foreign territory by conquest as well as his re-election, with Theo dore Roosevelt as his running mate, In 1900 are events of too recent occur rence to require more than passing mention. With the circumstances sur rounding his death, resulting from the bullet of an assassin, fired while Mr. McKinley was receiving at the Pan American exposition, and his gallant but unsuccessful fight for life the pub lic Is but too painfully familiar. Best Butter Ifn the World. The butter of Denmark is considered superior to that of all other countries. It brings the highest price In fancy markets and can be found all over the world in shops where luxuries are sold. In South America, South Africa, in the East and West Indies. in India, Egypt and in tropical countries gener ally it is used by epicures, who pay $1 a pound for it in tins of one, two and three pounds' weight. No other coun try has been able to produce butter that will stand changes of climate so well Refrigerator ships are now found on nearly all the big steamship routes, and they can carry perishables as long and as far as necessary, but butter shipped by the ordinary cargo steamer usually melts and remains In a liquid state as long as It is exposed to the tropic heat. When it passes into the temperate zone again, It hardens, and the change usually spoils it for .the taste, entirely destroying the flavor and leaving it like ordinary grease or oiL. The Danes, however, produce a butter which will endure this ordeal without affecting its flavor or sweetness, and they are the only people of whoxn this may be sald.-Chicago Herald. "De Choppin." "Speakin 'bout partnerships," said Moses, with a solemn shake of the head-"speakin 'bout partnerships wid a white man, I'ze had one an don't want no mo'. One time Kurnel Daw on dun cums ober to my cabin wid a bland smile on his face an shakes hands wid me an says: "'Moses, let's yo' an me go into part nership in de wood bizness. Yo's a powerful hand to chop, an I'ze a pow erful hand to sell cord wood.' "'Fears like a mighty good thing to me, an I goes at it an cuts 30 cords of wood. Bimeby I goes down to de kur nel fur my sheer ob de money, an he smiles an shakes hands an says: "'I'ze got it all figgered out, Moser. n de fust place, I purvided de timber. In de next place, I purvided de ax. Den I sent my mewls to draw do wood, an I spent my time to sell it. Dat 'pears to take in de hull ob de case.' "'But whar does do choppin eum In? I says. "'De choppin? Oh, dat was exer ise an don't count!"-New York Sun. The Dest'ructive Porpoine. Seeing that an ordinary porpoise Is from fiye to six feet in length and wvill require some 500 ordinary mackerel or their equivalent per week to keep it in fair condition-and there cannot be less than from 20,000 to 30,000 of these creatures living In British and Irish waters-the drain upon the shoals of makerel living in these seas from this source alone must be enormous, for if these creatures only feed on them one half of the year about 400,000,000 mackerel. must be destroyed without man or beast receiving any equivalent. These animals are not easily taken in hand, being so intelligent and active. I believe I am safe in saying there were extensive fisheries curried on for them in the sixteenth century at St. Mawes and Fowey, Cornwall, and in most of the narrow harbors of Britain, their flesh being highly valued by the gentry in those days, but now nothing of them is appropriated to man's use in England.-Contemporary Review. How Sponges Are Sold. When offered for sale in the local market in the Bahamas, sponges aro either piled up loose or made into strands or beads of from two to ten sponges each. The best sponges are usually made into strings of from eight to ten sponges each. Others are generally sold in lots not strung. The buyer, however, is not guided In his purchase by the number of sponges on a string, but by what a certain lot will weigh, and the weight is never given, but the buyer must estimate It; hence practical experience is needed in the purchasing of sponges. A Chinese Trick of War. A curious artifice of war was adopt ed by a Chinese junk when attacked by a man-of-war. The crew threw cocoa nuts overboard into the sea and then jumped in among them. Nearly all escaped, for It was impossible to tell which were heads and which were nts. THE PROLIFIC FLY. To Lessen the Pest All Organic Ref.. use Should Be Buried. Flies multiply at a prodigious rate. Given a temperature sufficiently high to hatch eggs, their numbers are only limited by the amount of food avail able for them. Linnmus is credited with saying that three meat flies, by reason of their rapid multiplication, would consume a dead horse quicker than would a lion, and the fact that certain'diptera having some outward semblance to the honeybee lay their eggs In the dead carcasses of animals probably led Samson and V!rgil to make erroneous statements with re gard to the genesis of honey and the manufacture of bees. The breeding of "gentles" for ground bait is an indus try the practices of which could prob ably give much information as to the nicety of choice exercised by flies in selecting material for feeding and egg laying. According to Packard, the house fly makes selection of horse dung by preference for ovipositing, and as each female lays about 120 eggs and the cycle of changes from egg to fly Is completed In less than three weeks it seems probable that a female fly might have some 25,000,000 descendants in the course of a hot summer. Other va rieties of flies multiply, I believe, still more rapidly. As flies multiply upon and in organic refuse of every kind, it Is obvious that the sooner such refuse Is placed where it cannot serve for the breeding and hatching of flies the more likely is the plague of flies to be lessened. The most commonly available method for the bestowal.of organic refuse is bur ial. The egg laying of flies in dead carcasses commences at the very in stant of death or even before death in the case of enfeebled animals.-Lancet. MISTAKES TO AVOID. An English paper gives what it terms "thirteen mistakes of life:" Itis a great mistake to set up our own standard of right and wrong and judge people accordingly. To measure the enjoyment of others by our own. To expect uniformity of opinion in this world. To look for judgment and experience in youth. To endeavor to mold all dispositions alike. To look for perfection in our own ac tions. To worry ourselves and others with what cannot be remedied. Not to yield In immaterial matters. Not to alleviate all that needs allevia tion as far as lies In our power. Not to make allowances for the infir mities of others. To consider everything impossible that we cannot perform. To believe only what our finite minds can grasp. To expect to be able to understand everything. The Evolution of Warhilps. A man need not be a scholar to be an invntor. One of the most success ful aeronauts of old times who had mrade a study of aerial currents and the management of balloons once delivered an address in which he referred to "the anaconda" as "the largest bird that ever flew," and he also remarked that "the mental faculties of a man's mind is so constructed as to bring things down to a pin's point" He also referred to the currents of air as stretchugns, meaning strata, and yet h'e was one of the foremost balloonists of his time. He was an inventor also of many useful things and was the first -man In the country to suggest an ironclad man-of-war with slanting sides. He buit a miniature vessel on this plan of sheet iron, placing it in the water and fired musket balls at it at short range. Every ball glanced off. The Merrimac was built on a similar plan, and from that humble beginning the evolution or revolution in naval archi-. tecture took its start.-Baltimore Sun. A Tall Smoke Column. During the burning of the Standard Oil company's tanks at Bayonne, N. J., in July, 1900, an Immense column of smoke, shaped at the top like an um brella, rose into the air, where very lit te wind was stirring, to an elevation, measured by triangulation, of 13,411 feet, or more than two miles and a half. Above the column white clouds formed In an otherwise cloudless sky and re mained visible for two days, the fire continuing to burn and the smoke to rise. After the explosion of an oil tank flames shot up to a height of 3,000 (et, and the heat radiated from them was felt at a distance of a. mile and three-quarters, where It was more no ticeable than close to the flre.-Youth's Companion. A Wonderful Cure. Some charitable women were recent ly inspecting the wards of a Baltimore hospital when they chanced to see a poor fellow, the expression of whose face melted their hearts. "My poor man," said one of the wom en sympathetically, "you seem to suf fer agonies." "Sure, mum," he answered, "I have the rheumatism." "Is there anything I could do for you?" asked the kind hearted woman. "We--," slowly muttered the patient, "I would like to have my face shaved, but I ha19 the coin." The women held a hasty consulta tion, and one of them finally drew a crisp $2 bill from her purse. Turning to the patient, she said, "There, take this, and may you soon get better." Her wish was evidently gratified, for the next day when she called at the hospital to see the good effects of a shave on the rheumatic patient she was told that shortly after she had left on the previous day he had shown such marked Improvement that he said he was able to get up and hurriedly left the hospital before a barber had been summoned. It was evident that the $2 bill had wrought the wonder.-Ba.lti more Sun. Gender of the sword. Among the many curious notions ob taiing among the different races using the sword may be noted the gender of the weapon. In the north of Europe it was either masculine, as in Britain, or neuter, as in Germany, while in the south It was uniformly feminine. Its force and cruelty appealed to the north era mind. Its grace and elegance at tracted the warriors of the sunny south. It typified to the one strength, to the other dignity.-Exchange. P'oor Meekton. "Henrietta," said Mr. Meektonl, "do you remember the moonlit evening when I asked you to marry me?" "I trust, Leonidas, that you are not going to become sentimental and silly." "Not a bit of it. But E often recall the occasion with interest I can ner. er quite understand how I managed to talk so familiarly to you without sem ng jmnartinent"-Washington Star. Buggies, Wagons, Road Carts and Caiages R1BPAIR1ED With Neatness and Despatch -AT R. A. WHITE'S WHEELWRIGHT awt BLACKSMITH SHOP. I repair Stoves, Pumps and run water pipes, or I will put down a new Pump cheap. If you need any soldering done, give me a call. LAME. My horse is lame. Why? Because I did not have it shod by R. A.'White, the man that puts on such neat shoes and makes horses travel with so much ease. We Make Them Look New. We are making a specialty of re painting old Buggies, earriages, Road Carts and Wagons cheap. Come and see me. My prices will please you, and I guarantee all of my work. Shop on corner below R. M. Dean's. R. A. WHITE, MANNING. S. C. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food. ltgivesinstant relief and never fais to cure. It allows you to eat al the foodyouwant. The most sensitive stomachs can take it. Byitsuse.many thousands of dyspeptics have been cared after everything else failed. It prevents formation ofgason the stom. ach, relieving all distressaftereating. Dieting unnecessary. Pleasanttotake. It can't help but do you god The R. 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